Which two sentences contribute to a sense of hope in this excerpt from "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin? She wept at once with sudden, wild abandonment in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have
no one follow her
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed
to reach into her soul
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the
street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in
the eaves
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has
cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.